http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/041908dnmetpolygamy.77507369.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/16/polygamy.escapes/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2008/04/update-on-flds-custody-hearing.html [recent update!]
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=YFZ+ranch&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title (YFZ Ranch News Update Google Search)
Well as you all can see, there is a plethora of articles to be had ... I just tried to get the cumulative ones that would bring you up-to-date quickly on the state of the matter. The last link is the search I used on Google to bring up all of the updated news on the YFZ Ranch incident and if you want to read more articles or find even more recent updates, I think that would be a really good link to check out!
The 2 things that bother me the most about this entire YFZ Ranch compound ordeal are 1)The children and 2) The women. Children are so young and impressionable and when you grow up in a society that oppresses women and marries them off at the tender ages of 13 and 14, it can cause irreparable damage not only to their psyche and mindset but also to their sense of self-importance, their self-esteem and completely stunt them as people. The boys are "groomed" to view women as mousy servants, objects to be married off, and vessels for their own propagation! Nowhere in this entire society does it teach young men to value women! Doesn't it bother these boys to see their sisters, cousins, and nieces married off at 13 and pregnant by 14?! Some of these women have silver hair and they have children that range in age from 5 - 17!!!! In a certain case a 13 year old girl was forced to marry her 19 year old cousin! That's despicable!!!! Disgusting! Horrifying! Unthinkable!!!!! They are openly forcing incest on these children! There is a reported cased of a 13/14 year old at the YFZ Ranch being married to a 46 year old man! The members of that sect don't see anything wrong with what's going on at the YFZ Ranch because they were never educated that these things were wrong! They just lived in this bubble with 2 people as the so-called "religions leaders" that governed all of their rules. In the state of Texas, anyone over the age of 18 cannot have sexual relations with a minor under the age of 16! It's considered statutory rape and during the investigation that CPS conducted they found many young girls ranging in age from 13-16 that were currently pregnant or already with children! How disgusting and sick is that?!
During a recent interview with Larry King Live on CNN, a few mothers from the YFZ Ranch came forward to talk about what was really going and give their side of the story but they all sounded like they were reading from a teleprompter or that they were trying to recall from their memories what they were told to say. When Larry asked the first mother where the father of her children were, she blatantly brushed the question off and continued to talk about "the children". Larry, not an easily desuaded person, asked her 3 more times in 3 different ways, where her husband, the father of her children were and she refused to answer every single time. Larry moved from mother to mother and asked them all the same question. Not one of them had an answer for him. They just diverted back to their children.
Maybe they were trying to protect their way of life or not get their husband or husbands (because it's entirely possible that all 3 of them have the same husband) into any more trouble but it really is disturbing that the mothers of these children are stepping into the media spotlight to fight for their children but the fathers/husbands are nowhere to be found. Why do you think that is? Do you think that if these men honestly, didn't think that they had done anything wrong that there would be cause to hide? Of course not, but if you know you did something wrong and the police man come looking for you, you're gonna hide! It's so sad to see these women, living in modern times, post-women's rights movements still being repressed so heavily! Just looking at their Heidi hairdos, their unibrows, and their Little House on the Prairie getups was a very difficult pill for me to swallow and I'm not even anywhere close to being an extreme feminist! Don't get me wrong, what you believe is what you believe and I respect that everyone has their own religion/opinion/thoughts, etc. But I think that there is a clear delineation between what is right and what is wrong. Abusing children/women/men/people physically, sexually and/or emotionally is just plain WRONG! Physical, sexual and emotional abuse of children especially, because they are so innocent and impressionable, is exceptionally deplorable behavior to me. Children are so unable to defend themselves let alone think for themselves and look up to adults to guide them and protect them. It's absolutely disgusting for people to take advantage of that innocence and trust. They grow up to be like these mothers in the YFZ Ranch who think that it's OK to be married to a man who has 17 other wives!!! I could never settle being 17th or 15th, not even 3rd or 2nd! I could never settle being another wife in the harem and a baby-making machine. I could never settle for no education and no feeling of self worth, or for a man who could not appreciate me as a UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL and not just another cog in the machine.
And at the end of the day, the thing that kills me the most is, the man who is apparently their "messiah", or leader of the FLDS sect is IN JAIL! Warren Jeff is his name. Google him. You will be utterly disgusted by him. He is the man who forced the 13 year old girl to marry her 19 year old cousin. That is what he's in jail for ... he was an accessory to a federal crime. It's unbelievable that the members of this sect, the FLDS, have turned a blind eye to such a blatant disregard for criminal behavior from the man who is supposedly their "leader". If this is the poison that is the head of the sect, then it is no wonder that this sort of disgusting behavior is prevalent throughout the entirety of their community.
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